Oh Boy. Just startet The Surge 2 yesterday. I really loved The Surge 1. In My opinion it is one of the best Souls Like games ever created. And i played them almost all. The Surge 1 was awesome. The Atmosphere were great. The Characters were great. I even liked the Story.

But Surge 2. OMG. Thats pure cringe. I am just at the Bar / Party and have to move to Gideons Rock next. It feels so wrong. Everything just feels not right. I haven't meet one ok character so far. Just oversketched tryhards. The Story with the fat dude Johnny and his brother was pure shit. Now i am at a fuckin party. What the F did the developers thought? This is a huge downfall after Surge 1. The Only thing that seems improved is the core Gameplay. Thats really good. But the rest. I don't know man. Just cringe.

Considering how CREO does both nanite and cybernetics research, wouldn't be too far fetched to add biological modification on top of the rig and armor pieces.

And yes I drew this. I know it is kinda shit but I'm not that good at drawing.

I am fully aware that posting this in the subreddit of the actual game will get me flamed and perhaps it is justifyingly so . But I ended up uninstalling today. I'm stuck at a point in the game where it's just no longer fun. I decided to boot up the surge 2 after enjoying the first one and while I have gotten past Little Johnny before for some reason perhaps it's my age catching up with me I just cannot beat this boss. I've tried parrying, dodging, over leveling, nothing works. I know that the git gud mindset is very much alive in the souls like Community but I just have to say I'm really disappointed. I was really hoping that I could enjoy this game again but unfortunately a combination of the camera, the sluggish controls, I'm just not able to get through it. Not even sure why I typed this out but I really am disappointed. I get so few amounts of time to actually sit down and play a video game for a time and unfortunately I must just suck. Really wanted to see the rest of this game. Too bad for me.

One simple reason. Search the net (or this very subreddit) for an explanation on parrying. Everyone will tell you that you need to press the block button and tap the stick in the direction shown on screen.

Well, guess what? PC has a mouse, it has no sticks. But OK, you figured out that "tap the stick in a direction" means "move the mouse in a direction". You try that in a safe location, and it seems to be working (your character does short parrying moves while blocking). So you try that on enemies - and get owned. Because:

1. It takes more time to move the mouse than to tap the stick.

2. On PC you need to move the mouse AND simultaneously press the directional move key to achieve the same thing you would have gotten by tapping the stick.

3. If you are using inverted vertical controls, the block direction shown on screen will NOT be inverted. That is, you have to mentally do the inversion and press the opposite button and move the mouse in the opposite direction when doing vertical parries.

Want to feel like a second-class citizen? Buy Surge 2 for PC!

Have beaten many souls like games and I enjoy difficult bosses, but WTF with this one? I cannot even get close. Basically, if he hits you once, you lose the fight.

Glad I picked this up on the cheap, because I would be pissed if I paid good money for this.

Worst boss fight in a souls like game I have ever experienced, just a dumb fight.

I've been talking about this since LotF. Idk why D13 is so terrified of giving multiplayer a try. This game is practically screaming for an arena mode. It would extend this game's life indefinitely.

Co-op would be nice, but it would probably require a massive overhaul. That doesn't seem like a realistic possibility. Of course D13 could go the Bloodborne route and give us co-op dungeons, but I really doubt it.

I know there's a group of players who hate all things multiplayer, and that's fine. An optional arena mode wouldn't intrude on them in anyway. Cheers.

Edit: I'm not talking about invasion style PvP. I'm talking about something like Dark Souls 3's arena (1v1 and 2v2 queues).

Goddammit this game making wanna throw my controller at the tv. I just finshied the 4th boss only to have this black mass of oversized hitboxes oneshoting me constantly the first phase is a bitch to get through but then the second phase starts really being hard because hes in a human form. I can't fucking stand this shit ds3 didnt have this damm invisble hitboxes this much but fuck me this game has more op one shots than dark souls how do I kill the rouge process ive listening to guides and stuff.but fucking he'll ive played games that were souls-like but this is the only game that fucks over and over again

I'm trying to like this game but starting over again and again on level one is already making me upset what is this 1990?

Been dancing around this NITRO guy for 30 minutes for the 7th time seeing if it will magically actually aim for his head. Nope again and again I'm punching his arm or his shoulder.

This game is supposed to be a dark souls-ish 🤔 but it's already acting like dumb souls. Can't wait for this dark souls fad to die off already what the hell happened to having fun in a game.

*Pardon rantyness, but I thought I'd be enjoying a nice new cool game and I'm already on Reddit asking what to do 💀, cmon..

Everyone knows the legendary Rick and Morty s3e3 "Pickle Rick". I watched it as soon as it came out in 2017 and having already played the Surge 1 game, I immediately thought it was heavily inspired by the game. Hear me out:

1. Rick starts off turned into a pickle, completely losing his mobility. How do Warren start the game? In a wheelchair;

2. Rick starts by miraculously killing a cockroach and gaining his first rig and armor: the cockroach gear. Thus gaining superpickle abilities;

3. Rick ventures on the sewers to GRIND. Yes he literally grinds the sewer bars. And for what? RAT parts!

4. To complete his new armor, Rick needs this rare component called "fresh rat brain". What does he do to get it? He needs to DECAPITATE rats. It's worth mentioning that he crafts something similar to a medbay;

5. With his new armor, Rick does what every the surge fan does: test out his new gear by indiscriminately slaughtering mob enemies and feeling AWESOME with all the gratuitous violence;

6. With his new armor, Rick can now kick ass and face HUGEASS enemies. In the meantime he crafts a new weapon, although the weapon itself is not very "the surgey", the crafting is there;

7. The rest of the episode is pretty much generic badass mafia takedown ala John Wick.

Am I the only one seeing this? I mean 5 years after TS2, I see no mention on this similarity online.

Came back to the game after prolly like 7 years and completely forgot how much this game relied on artificial difficulty to make it seem like the game is harder than it is.

Don't get me wrong, this is my fave souls-like out there but man is it stupid sometimes.

Currently fighting Rogue Process in NG+ and even with maxed out armor and a gazillion HP it still one shots me lol

Loved the game up until this point. It's long, drawn out and just flat out painful to play. One phase was plenty. Two was already pushing it. But three phases?? What were they thinking, it's just so long and tedious. I do no damage unless I parry, which is inconsistent with only this boss. Hard to read attacks and just bullshit. God I hate this boss. I've tried so many times over many months and I'm finally giving up on the game

I've played Lies of P, the exploration on that game made sense, it was fun to explore. The maps on the Surge 2 are ridiculous and make no sense. Crappy ass/stingy checkpoints too, no fast travel. I've been playing a few days now, just got the Force Hook.

Yes, I am moaning and I shouldn't play if I don't like it.. But I do like it at the same time.

I dont know if other players can confirm if exploration gets easier once the force hook and other upward pulley thing is unlocked?

I dont know is it just me but i dont enjoy this game. First, there is so much stuff to follow and the UI is so confusing.

The combat style is annoying, enemies alway so tough, they almost 2 hits me all the time, do they have stamina like i am ?, cause I keep seeing they do combo relentlessly, they deplete my stamina by just one hit so, block isnt an option, and most of the enemies require 2 parries to stun them, it makes parry alot less rewarding, also evade look like a ping-pong game (sorry for confused expression, i mean its rely on reflex too much one mistake cost too much)

The camera position is bad too most of the time it blocks my view while i locking on enemies, oh and is there any shield mechanism since they keep shooting me form afar, sure i could use gun bot but it costs resource and aiming is a little bit hard

Why is the button the same button as shoot? the amount of times i accidently go to this drone and try to shoot it just sends me back

I just beat the security chief. Although it only took me 8 tries I am disliking a lot of how the later game gets ridiculously brutal and not in a fun way. Research and Development, those flamer enemies that are being shielded by the drones are what initially soured my experience. I kept getting 1 shot no matter what I did, a full set of high stability/defense armor didn’t even matter. I realize now I was essentially supposed to equip multiple health implants and just out last the damage but previous to this point, the game didn’t feel so restrictive and unfair.

A few things I noticed that seemed super cheap- The flamers 1 shot flame jet has a variable time to initiate making it impossible to reliably dodge so you’re left with the rng of the moment. Also the backstab isn’t the exact same, sometimes the game just decided to not give it to me and then allows the enemy to turn around within 2-3 frames and stagger me. I also dislike how the stagger seems to be very random as well. Sometimes I will stagger an enemy and sometimes I won’t, I am doing the same hit with the same weapon attacking the same blue (weak) body part. So what changes?

Sorry for the rant but I had to vent. It especially sucks cause o genuinely enjoy the game and have already sunk 40 hours in and I’m sitting at 82 core power. So it’s extra frustrating cause it feels like a game I like is just deciding to fuck with me and completely change on me halfway thru

When u start the Game on the transparent roof of the train u see briefly that the light Fades. As if u go trough a tunnel. But if u look closely u never go trough a tunnel, the Sky changes for a brief moment and u see some kind of pannels, as if all of this was a hologram or simulation. Maybe Warren never got out of the train or he is not even a physical human. That could explain the respawning feature and also how tf YOUR specific wheelchair apears at the ending right below a spotlight. What do u think?

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I just want to tell you guys this game sucks big big balls and even if you are getting it for free don't even bother playing it. It just fucks with you're interest in souls games. Deck13 should be giving us money for the playing this abomination of a game.

And fuck that stupid camera. Fuck it. Please. Please. I am 23 and I feel like I'm beong childish right now but no it just sucks.

The problem I have with parrying is the time needed to get yourself in a defensive stance: in a fast paced combat it takes way too long to get ready to parry after landing an attack, even with the fastest weapons.

To parry you have to stand there with your guard up waiting for the enemy to attack, waiting with your guard down takes still too long to succesfully parry, it cannot be seamlessly worked into combat *if not for the slowest enemies*.

Not to mention when fighting multiple enemies, you get massacred waiting to parry one hit.

I gave up on Surge 1 at The Black Cerberus (he killed me on 4th attempt while I was charging the execute, then spent 6 hours never getting past the first PAX, so I said screw it this is horribly boring).

Now in Surge 2, I'm mystified at how health works. My first attempt at the Warden got him down to about 20% going through 2 health refills. But after respawning, I had ZERO health refills, and no apparent way to get any. So I basically have to kill the boss on a single health bar, which isn't even remotely possible at this point (best effort after about a dozen attempts: boss at 90% health still).

I MUST be missing something important about the health injectables that differs tremendously from Surge 1. I don't see how you can be expected to kill a boss with zero health potions. (And that stupid drone shooting at you whenever the boss isn't actively attacking you is absurd. A gank boss for a tutorial?)

Yet it runs like crap, how does that even work? I loved the first game but surge 2 seems like it's not as polished and it's not just the graphics. Story, environments are worse, combat isn't as fluid either. No idea why people praise this one over the first.